Differential temporal and spatial expression of POMC mRNA and of the production of POMC peptides during the murine hair cycle

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 885, Issue , 1999, Pages 427-429

  Mazurkiewicz, J E ^a   Corliss, D ^a   Slominski, A ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; BETA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; FURIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAIR GROWTH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032787381     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08704.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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